Erôs and the Polis / / Ed Sanders.

• VerfasserIn: Sanders, Ed,
• Place / Publishing House: London, United Kingdom : : University of London Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 103 pages)

Arising out of a conference on 'Erôs in Ancient Greece', the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece. The articles focus on (post-Homeric) Archaic and Classical poetic genres - namely lyric poetry, tragedy, and comedy - and some philosophical texts by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the connection between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms (aristocratic homosexuality, chastity); the roles of sôphrosynê (self-control) and akrasia (incontinence) in erotic relationships; and the connection between erôs and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storgê. The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place erôs as an emotion in its socio-political context.

Table of Contents

'Erôs and the polis': an introduction / Ed Sanders -- Politics, poetics, and erôs in archaic poetry / james Davidson -- Erotic charis: what sorts of reciprocity? / Nick Fisher -- The rejection of erotic passion by Euripides' Hippolytos / Dimitra Kokini -- Erôs in Menander: three studies in male character / Stavroula Kiritsi.